Group Drumming An Important Strategy to Improve Mood

The Daily Muse     


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There is more information coming out about the specific music strategies highlighted in the latest Cochrane Library Review. Drumming was one of the strategies they found that significantly reduced symptoms of depression for psychiatric patients. I found it most interesting that drumming alone was not as powerful as drumming paired with teaching about the purpose of the drumming and music therapy! The full story is here.  

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Facebook: Get Ready to Tango!

The Daily Muse     


Welcome to the Daily Muse feature of Music Makes Sense!  This daily update brings you up to the minute news about music and music therapy as it relates to our professions, events and individual lives.  You can follow the daily entries by subscribing to Music Makes Sense on Twitter or by "Liking" the Facebook page for Music Makes Sense.  Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

Facebook set to launch music listening service?? 

 This could get very interesting! I am already signed up for Spotify and they are saying that Spotify might be integrated soon with Facebook. Watch out iTunes! 

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Art Materials for Combined Music and Art Therapy: The Collage

Art Materials for In-Patient Psychiatric Consumers During Combined Art and Music Therapy Activities

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       Art and music therapy have been practiced for many years in the treatment of individuals with psychiatric illness.  This series of posts will focus on patients in an in-patient psychiatric hospital, where consumers stay an average of 13 days.  The male and female consumers range in age from young adult to senior citizens.  The consumers are housed in separate units by gender, severity of illness or forensic status.  One unit for more stable patients is co-ed.  The patients are seen for therapy both on the unit and sometimes off the unit in an “art room.”
  
Music and art therapists often work at the same facility, but are likely to work independently when conducting therapy groups.  Some art therapy directives may be effectively combined with music to provide a different experience or outcome.  This series will explore the materials needed for five combined art and music interventions: drawing, using clay, creating mandalas and collages, and painting.